Focus on Trade

Trade talks at dawn
By Steve Schifferes, BBC News Online economics reporter in Doha

Revised ministerial draft declaration: Still harmful to interests of developing countries
By Walden Bello and Aileen Kwa

Views on the draft declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and public health
4:30 pm, november 13, 2001, Doha
Compiled by James Love, Consumer Project on Technology

Protest group softens tone at WTO talks
By Paul Blustein Washington Post

The Doha Report(11, november)
By Anuradha Mittal

IN THIS ISSUE - WTO talks reconvene at dawn in Doha (see story), some first impressions of the revised draft declaration from Walden Bello and Aileen Kwa, a collection of reactions to the Draft Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, with thanks to James Love of the Consumer Project on Technology, plus the latest installment of Anuradha Mittal's Doha Report.

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